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him. She testified before the commit

MIN. Sne teHIlueu DeIore tue cOmtntb-
tee that every place he ever had and
had left she made it her business to in
quire the cause, and always found that
Ed. had lett on his own account except
once, and that was from the employ of
Goodall Il Perkins, where he broke the
rules of the company and was dis
charged as purser of a steamer of the
company.
Tonight there is large delegation of
politicians from San Francisco here who
have been implicated in this crooked
business directly and indirectly. There
is strong feeling of hostility against
Smith for giving the ''snap" away.
Among the gentlemen who arrived art
Thomas Agnew, of San Francisco,
prominent insurance man in the employ
of the State Investment Insurance
Company, whose name was brought up
in the push on the file proposition.
Agnew denies ever speaking to Smith
more than twice in his life. John :.
Dnos, who was brought up here it is
supposed for the purpose of impeaching
the testimony of Smith, will not testify
as proposed by Senator Moiiitt that
Smith would not ba believed under oath.
Smith says that Enos is his best friend,
and only yesterday received from him
letter headed "My Dear Friend Ed"
Smith says that Enos dare not tell any
thing about him that is not right, because
if he does he will only imphcate other
Senators whose names have not yet
been mentioned, and will have to
necessarily be brought in by Smith to
protect himself. 1t is the general i'm
preston here that the whole investiga.
tion will wind up in the whitewash of
the members and lobbyists, and the dis.
charge from the desk of Ray Fa!k and
Smith, and probably Jacob Shaen, en-.
crossing clerk of the Assembly. To-
morrow morning the committee win
continue the investig .tion. The readers
of the HERALD will be kept posted on
all the important proceedings IN tbs
case.
Now the session is drawing to close
the obstructionists are showing their
hands. Senator Nrooman has taken
pains to show that 1t has been his only
course through'the session. He has, 1t
is true, been reported as sick, but he
never so far has lost chance to OBJ
struct some measure that would be OF
advantage to the State at large. But for
the watchfulness Of Senator White,
who has never left his post since the be-
ginning of the session, nothing whatever
would have been done. When Abbott
offered his resolution to restrict the de.
bate on all questions to ten minute,
mover OF the resolution, saying
that he would regret it as long as
he breathed the breath of life. Whether
this was threat ON the gentleman from
Contra Costa as to his future political
preferment at the hands OF the Frooman
style of Republicanism or not, it had
the desired tffsct on all sides. Cani.
net.i moved to shorten the time to five
minutes, White standing on this propo-
sition, and it was carried un tnimousiy
The thanks of the entire people are due
TO those time eavers-the only thing 10
be regretted is that the rule was not
adopted early in the session. Speech.
making by long winded obstructionists is
not fashionable now days, but the
gentleman from Alameda has had
fourteen years experience in this line CT
haraugue and feels pleased to hear him
self talk, but does not realize the fact
that it is very disa greeable to those who
are paying taxes to pay his per diem, not
for talking but to represent their inter.
ests. He is now vergit on demagogism
and will soon reach the apex.
Knox's Constitutional amendment
passed the Assembly to-day and has
reached the Senate. II will be intro.
duced as a substitute for Whites amend
ment, which is virtually the same. 1t
provides for the making OF charters by
cities of not less than 10000 nor over
100, 600 population.
Senate bill 43j will be Of in
terest to the people Of Los Angeles.
it may be subjected to some little
amendment, but not of Importance
enough to change the usefulness of tine
bill. Clunie has got tired talking.
Vrooman is sick at his own speech.mak-
ing. The San Francisco delegation are
glad Of it, so are the listeners in the
lobby. The time is drawing to an end;
no one seems to regret it and Clerk Ed.
Smith seems TO be the only one who has
made record.
Quite lively alteration took place
this afternoon, Immediately after the
adjournment of the Senate, between
Senators Clunie and Caminetti. The
former had moved to take up Senate
Bill g. out OF order, and the latter had
been instrumental in defeating the me-
tion. The measure was one whose OBJ
jeet was to reduce the hours OF labor Of
street.car employees to twelve hours a
day. Clunie taxed Caminetti with being
hostile to the bill, and threatened that
when the latter became candidate for
Congress he (Clunie) would go through
his district and expose to his constitu
ents his hostility to the interests of la
bor. Caminetti retor;ed hotly and as
serted that he was much nearer the
people than Clune had ever been. For
moment or two it looked as if the
quarrel between the statesmen might as.
sumo an aspect of physical activity, but
they restrained their passions, and, after
conversing in u more subdued way for
few Moments s,lllenly seperated